skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can tell you with some confidence that no partner at any of those funds could care less what some public market long/short outfit thinks and vice versa. Both of these groups of people invest money and that's about where the similarity ends.
Some of this exists, and both Quora and Facebook (among others) use it extensively. Both hate speech and porn are good targets for machine learning. It needs supervision, but it can take a lot of load off human moderators.

Open source implementations exist, e.g.:

https://github.com/t-davidson/hate-speech-and-offensive-lang...

I suspect more message board will want to start applying these sooner rather than later. Most have already figured out that they need anti-spam tools, rather than it coming as a surprise when they roll things out and it fills up with bots. The technology is similar.

You mention being able to share that information across boards, and I don't know of any widespread implementation of that. You can, at least, let somebody else handle your authentication, which slightly slows their ability to create new accounts when you blacklist one. I'd like to see those sites distinguish "aged" accounts, so that it at least takes some effort or cost to use a new account.
if you're in this space, consider trying out sonobus also. not the author (though he is a friend of mine), haven't tried it yet myself, but seems to have all the right stuff.
Very interesting take.

Would be cool (and likely even more dramatic) to see the chart going back 10(?) years.
And here is the order and authorization from FCC that gave them permission to do that launch, including deploying 10 Starlink satellites at 560km:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-21-34A1.pdf

Note that SpaceX asked for more, but FCC decided to only grant 10 satellites for now. So, SpaceX did as they always do and followed the order to the letter, and only deployed 10.
If you know the risk, and can afford the loss, you can use a different platform, no?

This action is likely (at least partially) targeted to prevent new users who have never traded a stock from trying to hop on the train and follow a "How to buy GME Options to make BANK in 5 simple steps!" article from losing everything.

Do you think there would be less blow-back if Robinhood only restricted new accounts? Or maybe only people with minimum balances?

If they stopped allowing people to sell their existing positions, then a lawsuit about "Robinhood is holding my funds hostage, didn't let me sell, and now I lost money because of them" would have come in, and probably would have had a lot more merit.
Justin mentions it is a tip and puts his reputation on the line to get the news out. How about having some balls to put your name on what you believe to be true?
someone says that’s what happened

Well, if someone said something on the internet, then it must be true!
That's the meta view from the outside looking in. If you truly believe in Christianity then you truly believe God is the dictator and you believe there isn't a choice in the matter. Most Christians are okay with this, which is my point.

I could use a real world example like Singapore but there are imperfections in that country. God is an example of a perfect dictatorship in every possible conceivable way, it's even better than democracy.
You can "tell" anyone anything. Look, you're telling them right now they should open up trading for these stocks!
So "it was funny until it was relevant to me personally, then it wasn't"?

Strong moral backbone ya got there.
There's also "Put your hands where I can see them, you are under arrest for committing illegal financial acts". At the end of the day, the government has sovereignty over your physical body.

In addition, at some point your virtual money has to be turned into something physical or else what's the point? And those physical goods can be monitored and irregularities can prompt questions.
I think the "sh" and "ed" decode to "self-harm" and "eating disorder". The "tw" might be "trigger warning". Given that, the "you got one too?" might mean "you have an eating disorder too?", although it doesn't make grammatical sense as "you have a self-harm too?", although that could be interpreted as "you have a self-harm disorder too?". But I don't really know.
I guess I wasn't clear... I don't necessarily think RH is acting in good faith. I was just suggesting what I feel is the only possible good faith explanation. Not that I believe that is the case.
I am a son of a single mother, who was a teacher at the time. In a country that was just recently liberated from the soviet union. Trust me, I was not rich.

Started my first company at 20, after dropping out from university. (mom wasn't exactly happy)

Sorry, your excuse doesn't apply.

Unless you want to claim that going to a state-funded university is a privilege, in which case I guess everyone in all the countries where universities are free are privileged?!?
Your position was "I judge things by how accurate and well sourced the claim was, and this claim of dodgy ownership is irrelevant." I can't see it as anything but a defense based on religious/political affiliation.
Robinhood Insider Information [by alleged whistleblower]
> How come they only had trouble executing buy GME orders?

I used to be an options market maker. Different animal same game park.

If I saw a stock doing what GameStop is doing, I'd pull the plug. One, we'd have already made a ton of money on it. More importantly, with this kind of volatility (and correlation), we'd be well outside the parameters of our risk models.

Usually, cash equities don't have this problem. But there is a realistic chance that a desk will fill a bunch of sells, turn around, and within those microseconds watch the market gap down 50%.

It's unlikely. But how unlikely? We don't know. We're too correlated, and too volatile, to predict that. You do something like that, particularly after the amount of press coverage this is getting, you are going to lose your job.

> I hope RH is burned to the ground after giving up whoever coerced them into doing this

Between the gameified UI that encouraged day trading, their reliance on payment for order flow and margin-lending / options trading model, I won't say this was bound to happen. But it was an identifiable risk.

The warning signs were clear when their systems went offline under large volumes. Concerns were dismissed then. I expect this will be forgotten by much of their user base soon enough as well.
Thankfully my job has kept the same sick policy, if you are sick, don't work, just rest and get better. Granted we are all consultants and contractors, so it also saves them from paying for a full day with a likely substantial decrease in output.
Nurture might be nature: cautionary tales and proposed solutions
High-flying Reddit stocks whipsaw as platforms like Robinhood curb trading
Nothing to do w/ unwanted attention from politicians and regulators?
We always brought firewood with us. And we definitely didn't bring wet wood.
I don't think it's only Robinhood, I see other brokers blocking those stocks [0], not sure if it's fair to pile on just Robinhood.

[0] https://twitter.com/convalytics/status/1354859301924438021
How have they exited their short position when the short interest is still ~130% though?
What does HFT have to do with buying up retail trade streams before they are put on the market? Surely HFT can exist without that.

And the OP is right, the trader is 100% the product in this scenario and the trade stream buyers are the real customers.
Why BMW cars are unreliable?
something new, I didn't know. since my college didn't have online book store at the time
> Perhaps I'm missing your point here, but as far as I know, there's nothing in the Open Source or Free Software movements that ever viewed FOSS primarily as the basis for interesting proprietary software.

Proprietary doesn't factor into it. Maybe a clearer way to put the thing I am positing: the idea behind open source is that it is interesting end user apps that have value and change the world, not the software components from which those apps are built.
Citadel also runs an active hedge fund.
That's fine. They can just take a salary cut if they need their employer to provide them an officespace.
Regulations make that more or less illegal. Executions must happen at the NBBO (national best bid / offer). You can't arbitrarily choose which orders to match.
Let's say it's not commission free. What are the actual costs for paying per trade. What's the math for monthly subscription if we follow Netflix model?
They are not the only one, TD Ameritrade and Alpaca are doing it too... they are on one team, we are on the other.
Thank You, Apple for Standing Strong for Privacy
The Supercharger network. That pretty much justifies all of the build-quality issues with the cars, given how hard it is to actually use a non-Tesla public charger.
Not true; you can make money off of interest on cash, and interest from lending stock to shorters.
An unusual historical paper from Niklaus Wirth, about many "good and original ideas (that) turned out to be less brilliant than they first appeared."

http://pascal.hansotten.com/uploads/wirth/Good%20Ideas%20Wir...
Speaking from experience, I’ve been on internet since 1990. Even back then there were censorship. Moderators that took away your post if it was irrelevant or wasn’t on topic. You couldn’t store specific types of images (porn) etc.

I’ve never believed that internet was about “free speech” but more “grouping of specific type of speech”. If you were interested in something you either created that or hang out with others that thought the same.
For me it has never been about free speech, just a way to reach stuff. Free speech in IRL is another thing.
People are flooding robinhood competitors
No one remembers that most short positions are actually held by retail investors. I myself regularly take short positions.

The reason trading was stopped is that if a stock price suddenly gaps then the retail investors can lose more money than they have in their accounts. Then the brokerage or their clearing firm have to take the losses. They are not willing to do so, so they stop allowing trading. The brokerages are not somehow colluding to make hedge funds money, they are just trying to make sure that they do not lose money themselves.
I don't know for sure but I don't think there needs to be a chinese firewall between the two like at banks. Banks investment banking and advisory divsiions have access to insider information by the nature of their work, which is why the chinese firewall exists between them and the sales and trading desk. Citadel is a hedge fund, however that uses only public information (presumptively, as otherwise would be illegal) so i don't think there's a reason why they would need to be firewalled off. Also Citadel does use Citadel Securities for execution.

Additionally, they're both owned (mostly) by Ken, who is know for being a bit "detailed" (to put it nicely) when it comes to his businesses. He almost certainly has live second by second pnl updates for all parts of all of his business, he almost certainly was the one who made the decision to invest 1.4+ bn into Melvin, and he almost certainly knows that retail flow (esp robhinood) is a huge part of citadel securities business.

Honestly I think reddit has some grounds for a case here, but IANAL.
Not a user of RH, but I cannot imagine they aren't gathering these kind of analytics on their users as well as the order flow data.
> There is a big difference between "never going to an office again" and "not going in 5 days a week".

Yes, but I'd argue there's an even bigger difference between "not going in 5 days a week" and "going in 5 days a week."

As soon as you're remote even just part time, that means all your internal tooling and everything must be remote-compatible. Way more of your communication becomes async-by-default. And if some people are 1-2 days wfh, what's to stop some people from choosing 100% remote? And if that's happening, why limit your hiring to local?

Even part time remote employees is a culture shift.
Exactly. These companies are losing literal billions. Actual wars in real life have been fought over less. Yet they couldn't possibly be exerting any influence over the companies they own. That would be illegal.
This is really nice. Many/most enterprises likely still deploy on VM's so this is likely a godsend to sysadmins/whoever has to manage large number of VMs.
Emotet Botnet Disrupted in International Cyber Operation
In my travels in Brazil I saw some incredible hustling going on in poor areas.
Oh, that was an interesting read! I wasn't aware of Angelfish or how it integrated the same library.
I left a job in February 2020 because they had instituted a policy that no more employees would get remote work...a year earlier, they promised me WFH after a year. It was a big reason I left. Then, covid hit, and suddenly WFH was and still is mandatory.
Yes, hedge funds send their LPs private "Investor Letters" with a lot more detail. Not sure who the public statement was meant for, but it might have been meant to discourage the public from taking opposing positions.

You wouldnt communicate to your LPs via CNBC or Twitter.
Have you seen the production quality though?
It's absolutely market manipulation. RH gets sells order flow to Citadel, who bailed out Melvin Capital.

Someone high up at RH got their arm twisted to help their buddies close their shorts.
So all it takes for a sound false flag attack conspiracy theory is for some sweeping legislation and some insight into which specific user accounts started this whole ordeal, not too dissimilar from the Capitol invasion and what has followed so far... heck it already seems clear if something isn’t beneficial for the oligarchy the media would bury it very quickly rather than fluffing it up to high heaven!
I did think the InterPanetary File System was promising: https://ipfs.io/
"Please do not flag it for our attention." is the perfect finishing touch too.
I usually launch persistent one liners inside a `bash -c "while...`, just so if it starts using resources I can easily see what is the original purpose in the process tree.
AppTrackingTransparency Requirement Update
Trading212 also halted buying GME/AMC.
I really like Heroku too and I think it does solve the problem particularly well for simple web apps. The world of devops isn't entirely simple web apps. Nor does it necessarily run (or can run) in the cloud.

There's an OSS heroku implementation, dokku I think? If it solves the problem well for what you need then you could just embrace it!

The challenge in some of the companies I've been is that the code base is 20~40 years old, there's a mix of languages, patterns, approaches and OSes generating value to the business.

Standardizing that across 100s of developers across 10s of departments isn't an easy task. Refactoring the deployment/code to whatever was the best practice of the last year isn't a good use of time either. People who wrote some of it left, there's no resources, etc.

The world of startups is quite straight forward, the world of enterprise software or companies that have a decent number of developers and have been around for a while, not so much...
Online communities standing up to bullies
It is class warfare though... Only the elites are allowed to win here. How else can you describe that other than class warfare?
This is a related article:
https://graymirror.substack.com/p/tech-solutions-to-the-tech...

The first part is about politics, if you only care about the tech part, you can jump to the following headlines:

- Encrypted clients

- Protocol extraction and unauthorized clients

- The secure personal server

- Technology is hard, actually
It's interesting to see the outrage about this. Everyone who has done a bit of research into this kind of broker knew this. It's the only way to get the commissionless trading they advertise with.

Just another case of "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold".
Not to mention the huge amount of time it often takes to get setup and understand how to use the company's internal tools for source hosting, code review, ticket tracking (even it you used Jira at your old job and are now using at your new one, it's probably configured differently), CI, etc.
I find it weird that the comment is locked rather than deleted.

Funny it be, it does not seem à propos for answering a quæstion.
This is not about knowing how to benefit from corruption. This is like basic common sense. I'm not engaging in whataboutism or trying to excuse bad behavior. Market abuse, including market manipulation should be punished irrespective of who is doing it.

I was pointing out the fact that if you go and do it and then brag about it in a public forum, don't be surprised that you get dinged.

It's literally like robbing a bank and then going to the police to hand in the video evidence, only to be surprised when the policemen are not impressed. Yes the big guys should be prosecuted. But perhaps if you didn't explicitly stand on the corner shouting "I'm going to rob a bank and all you guys should also rob banks", the authorities wouldn't be on to you.
....but it helps a huge amount. That's the point of this article.

It's much easier to risk doing a startup when you know that no matter what, you won't have to go hungry or homeless because there's family who will help you. You're a lot less worried about pouring dollars into your 401k at age 22 if you know that you stand to eventually inherit a few million from your parents, so whatever.
Seems like the most financially responsible move. And these guys are fiduciaries.
I agree the whole landscape shifts, I just think it won't be even distributed and most of the change will be relatively small, not radical reorganization.
Thank you for sharing!! I'm very fascinated by these huge engineering projects/machines.
But what if I want to own something?
I need a replacement for `xdotool` before I can commit to using wayland. Any good wayland tutes?
In my experience, there are two ways for a company to be successful at having remote employees:

1. everyone is 100% remote

2. everyone comes into the office occasionally

Anything else leads to a two-tiered system.
Ted Cruz and AOC have also tweeted similar.
I fear that when Amazon Sidewalk opens up to third parties, there will be no stopping devices, in fact I would imagine that Amazon could share the wifi passwords it collects with all Sidewalk devices.
remember they don't have to report if they opened another one.
> Every time I see something like this I think I should open source my masters thesis in aerospace engineering.

Just do it! ;)
I did notice it's easy to mislead/derail people trying to help you by not being clear... I always feel awkward when that happens.

(context of debugging)
> How have they exited their short position when the short interest is still ~130% though?

Lots of people are short? I know at least half a dozen people who bought puts over the last few days. Those puts hedge into shorting the same way calls turn into buying.
I Google syllabuses for whatever I want to learn and then look up whatever readings are suggested.
Most likely it's a large long position who is capitulating or being margin called (stopped out) by their broker. I don't think a short seller with that kind of capital would ever chase a steep drop like that.
Not necessarily. Those shorts exist for a reason: someone thought that gamestop was a bad company. If they are right then the short position won't need to be bought back because at some point the bankruptcy court will decide that the share holders get nothing. At this point all trades on the stock are legally halted and so the IOUs are legally meaningless - anyone who owned stock gets nothing.

Of course the above depends on the short holders to: be right; have the capital to not have to cover their shorts; and be willing to hold on for the ride. I'm not making bets on any of the above.
Yup! So far, we have C (Python runtime), C++ (Qt), Python (qutebrowser itself), Rust (adblocker) and JavaScript (web stuff and some of qutebrowser's code) involved. Probably some other small things I'm not thinking of right now.

It's... challenging sometimes, but still working surprisingly well overall.
I won't. Likewise, I love driving with my knees, because I'm lazy and I like to eat while driving.

Should I be arrested, even without having caused any accident ever? In your mind, I'm sure the answer is "yes", if you don't care about results, only about violations.

The conservative stance I read all over the comments is quite concerning.

Most modern nerds seem to be concerned first with order and safety - including shoving it down other people throats. That's quite far in one direction of the political spectrum!

> They don't choose to be near someone who can't do overhand tight turns because the geometry of the steering wheel doesn't permit it.

The obvious solution is to adopt the equivalent of fly-by-wire, instead of a linear response, so that 70 deg in one direction become equivalent to maximum steer. Bonus point: we'll be able to use joysticks or joypads so that our hands can rest, instead of holding a stupid wheel like we're back in the 1900s.

I strongly believe we should discard old regulations ASAP, as they were due to the technological limits back when they were introduced, and regulations only pile up and kill innovation. Technology improved many things, let's adapt to it!

You still have time to adapt instead of becoming a new kind of boomer.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
Robinhood apparently selling people's shares ”for their own good“
I think a lot of company leaders will nod along with the picture you paint above, but any company that's 40% or less remote will probably recenter on sync-by-default, in-person, and where being-at-headquarters matters.
They've been trying to take down dark net markets for 10 years, spending tons of resources and with limited success.

I'd call that a success for cryptocurrencies. If a portion of that success can be achieved in normal, everyday transactions, then we would be in a much better world than we are today.
The point is not to hurt all billionaires, but those who hold 140% short positions.
Is it wrong to call selling calls short selling? Regardless, I think it was puts that they were buying (so sorta the contrapositive).
> Going where instead?

To another brokerage? This question doesn't make sense. RH isn't the only brokerage around, and there is a mass migration of people into other brokerages. Their app is currently at 1.0 stars.
Robinhood are automatically selling shares
https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315
>Just got a tip that Citadel reloaded their shorts before they told Robinhood to stop trading $GME.

If this is true, Ken Griffin and the Robinhood founders should be in jail.

This is class warfare.
Ok, but Open Source principles and Free Software principles both apply equally to library code and to application code.
> Genuinely hard

Actually incredibly easy.
$GME isn't worth anywhere near $350 or $20B market cap. These people are in a world of hurt when you have WSB spinning stories and encouraging reckless behavior, where some are throwing their last $20,000 into it, which will eventually disappear to $100 unless they passed the buck to some other chump before it all blows up. RH could genuinely believe that the sooner the GME pump stops, the less damage is done to these extremely naive retail investors, because the future naive bagholders flooding in are prevented from throwing their little savings at it.

Brokerage execution halting or not, this story has an incredibly obvious ending, and it's that some WSB pumpers will profit huge, some hedge funds will lose huge, but the majority of WSB will lose immensely.
Apparently they forced the sale of some peoples' shares.

https://twitter.com/555Sunny/status/1354854993946406917?s=20